Re: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey III

You're right we shouldn't look past the first round, but each of these teams wants it so bad I don't think they will let anything get in the way of Tuesday. But yes, I should have waited.

By the way, anybody who is free Friday night should make an attempt to go see the HM-Tartan game if they have never seen Kait Rolando play. This will likely be her last HS game. I think she's among the best I've ever seen. A couple other senior goalies who are considered 'special' had uneven seasons--but not her. From all reports she has been stellar all year.

And CDH two years ago should never have been considered a surprise. They had 3 D1 seniors and a near-D1 goalie. Their record wasn't great only because Wild was off playing with the US 18 team quite a bit and Jondal could only join the squad in January. Their isn't anything going on like that this year.

Agree on Rolando she is very good well deserving of Ms Goalie finalist and always plays HM tough - game between Tartan and HM is actual on the 10th at St. Croix not Friday:

Re: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey III

Originally Posted by capitalist

Sorry about the false advertising concerning Kaitlyn Rolando. I didn't realize she was out the last couple of games and didn't play last night.

The 8th grade goalie last night for Tartan played very well - HM came hard in the first and thrid and Tartan's speed didn't match up. I was sorry for all that Rolando had to finish her HS carreer in street sweats on the bench she is truly one of the best goalies in MN and one that to few have seen or know about.

Re: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey III

So the lowest GPA among the 5 is 3.77, it looks like a couple of them will be valedictorians, one sings the National Anthem before home games (a Stillwater player does the same, are there more out there?), and a couple of them want to be doctors. And people wonder why we're fans of girls/women's hockey.....

Re: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey III

Since USHSHO seems to have gone belly up (or maybe didn't renew their domain in time and hopefully will be back..)

Duluth knocked off CEC 2-1 tonight...2-0 well into the third when Courtney Esse finally got CEC on the board with 5 minutes left.

The Lumberjacks were without Jessie Ryan who injured an elbow in Bemidji in the final game of the regular season. At times, both teams struggled to get the puck out of their own zone once the offense got it in, but without Ryan the Jacks had more of those problems. Both CEC goaltenders got time in what turned out to be the final games of their high school careers.

Paige Turner played well for Duluth whether getting faceoffs by directing shots over the glass into the netting, or by covering the puck.

Duluth gets Elk River on Saturday at noon...until this season the section semi-finals were a doubleheader on Saturday but I guess that was changed for Elk River? They don't do high seed site for the boys, or section 7A so it's hard to know exactly why they are doing it this way.

Got a few hours of picture editing to do.. but will post a link here sometime in the middle of the night I guess